Jean Meltzer at Scrawl Books

Join us at Scrawl Books on Thursday, September 5 at 7PM as we welcome the queen of Jewish romance, Jean Meltzer! Jean will be discussing her new rom-com, Magical Meet Cute, with Event Manager Leah. Perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Taj McCoy! Order ahead here: https://www.scrawlbooks.com/event/jean-meltzer ABOUT THE BOOK A romantic comedy for fans of Sally Thorne, about a lonely potter who drunkenly creates a golem doll of her perfect match, and meets the man of her dreams the next day. Ettel Resnick is a proud Jewitch woman. After being dumped by her fiancé of seven years, following a disastrous snowmobile ride on the snowy cliffs of Lapland, she’s recreated herself, selling her successful legal practice in Manhattan to open Magic Mud Pottery in Woodstock, New York. When she’s not running a successful pottery business, she’s going caving, a favorite hobby of hers. In fact, the only downside to her new life in upstate New York might be her octogenarian neighbor, No-filter Nelly, who makes it a point to nag her, constantly, about dating and getting on with it, and not letting the past control her future happiness. But everything changes on the fateful night she returns from yet another singles event at the synagogue, and finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers. Desperate for comfort, she turns to only thing guaranteed to soothe her Jewitch soul. Pottery. Heading to her studio, she gets super drunk, and crafts a golem. She pours her heart into that little clay creature. She gives it everything she’s ever wanted in partner, etching words onto his body, some sensible, some esoteric, before getting totally naked and burying that golem doll in her backyard. But when her ideal man turns up the very next day, and checks every detail inscribed on her clay man’s belly, including loving to play Scrabble and reading her books, she’s left wondering if she’s falling in love with the real deal, or if she’s truly summoned a golem. "A winning recipe for contemporary romance grounded in real-world issues." —Publishers Weekly on Kissing Kosher ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jean Meltzer studied dramatic writing at NYU Tisch and has earned numerous awards for her work in television, including a daytime Emmy. She spent five years in rabbinical school before her chronic illness forced her to withdraw, and her father told her she should write a book--just not a Jewish one because no one reads those.

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